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The Moon on Wednesday, August 19, 1953: Waxing Gibbous, 67% lit

Waxing · 66.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 15°

Moon age

9.8days

Moon phase on August 19, 1953Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 19 August 1953385,678 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 19, 1953, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 66.8% of its visible face lit, 9.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

66.8%Illumination at noon UTC
9.8 dMoon age
385,678 km239,649 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (16°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 19, 1953 is on Monday, August 24, 1953 at 20:21 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 9, 1953 at 16:10 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 17, 195320:08
Full Moon (after)Monday, August 24, 195320:21

The Moon around August 19

More about this date

Wednesday, August 19, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 9, 1953 to the new moon of September 8, 1953, a cycle of 29.65 days.